The Defenders
Season 3, Episode 12: Old Lady Ironsides
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A high school senior is denied the chance to finish two more months of high school for a diploma, just because she has been found to be pregnant. A little old lady who has befriended the girl, and who had been an active Suffragette, determines to help her: she chains herself to the school entrance. The attending publicity and subsequent sanity hearing for the old lady, force the board to change its ruling.
All Episodes - Season 3
Episode 1
The Weeping Baboon
Episode 2
The Empty Heart
Episode 3
The Captive
Episode 4
The Bagman
Episode 5
Conspiracy of Silence
Episode 6
The Cruel Hook
Episode 7
Star-Spangled Ghetto
Episode 8
Loophole
Episode 9
The Seal of Confession
Episode 10
Climate of Evil
Episode 11
The Crowd Pleaser
Episode 12
Old Lady Ironsides
Episode 13
Fugue for Trumpet and Small Boy
Episode 14
Claire Cheval Died in Boston
Episode 15
The Last Day
Episode 16
Blacklist
Episode 17
Who'll Dig His Grave?
Episode 18
All the Silent Voices
Episode 19
The Secret
Episode 20
The Pill Man
Episode 21
Drink Like a Lady
Episode 22
Survival
Episode 23
Moment of Truth
Episode 24
The Hidden Fury
Episode 25
Die Laughing
Episode 26
May Day! May Day!
Episode 27
The Thief
Episode 28
Yankee Go Home
Episode 29
The Man Who Saved His Country
Episode 30
Mind Over Murder
Episode 31
The Sixth Alarm
Episode 32
The Fine Line
Episode 33
The Non-Violent
Episode 34
Stowaway
Episode 35
Hollow Triumph
Episode 36
The Uncivil War